“Nobel laureate Francis Crick (1916–2004) couldn’t have put it better, when he famously quipped that the mind—the self-aware, subjective aspect of the brain—is “nothing but a pack of neurons.” Crick asserted that all mental activity, all of “your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. ” — adapted from Radin’s Real Magic